Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos
I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance It works fine on a Windows machine with IE (no surprise there); however, using Firefox 6.0 on FreeBSD-8.2 it simply will not work. Some other videos from the same site do work correctly though. This phenomena has happened to me several times on several different sites. I have contacted a few sites to see if I could get some assistance. I was informed by the few who bothered to reply that they test their material against IE and Firefox run under Windows. One responder informed me that testing against non-windows architecture was not a viable option due to the extreme fragmentation of the non-windows community. Anyway, I was hoping that perhaps someone might have a working solution for this predicament. -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance Video plays perfectly for me on recent STABLE, firefox and flash. Someone else was mentioning a similar situation on emulation@ or @current perhaps? It wasn't that long ago, and every reply was works for me. You can see if the OP from that message was able to resolve the issue. I have noticed flash has been a bit more unstable lately especially on youtube after a period of time where it was relatively error free. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance I'm running FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #22: Sun Aug 21 05:16:20 CDT 2011 with 512 Aug 18 07:39 amd64 and /var/db/pkg/firefox-6.0,1 and this plays perfectly. Maybe the difference between 8.0 and 9. So this probably doesn't help much. I've got a 7.4-STABLE i386 at the office that I will install it on and test it tomorrow. It is running 5 now. I would probably use csup and then portmaster to update my ports and friends, just to try and keep these things in order. sorry, ed It works fine on a Windows machine with IE (no surprise there); however, using Firefox 6.0 on FreeBSD-8.2 it simply will not work. Some other videos from the same site do work correctly though. This phenomena has happened to me several times on several different sites. I have contacted a few sites to see if I could get some assistance. I was informed by the few who bothered to reply that they test their material against IE and Firefox run under Windows. One responder informed me that testing against non-windows architecture was not a viable option due to the extreme fragmentation of the non-windows community. Anyway, I was hoping that perhaps someone might have a working solution for this predicament. -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:12:56 -0400 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance It works fine on a Windows machine with IE (no surprise there); however, using Firefox 6.0 on FreeBSD-8.2 it simply will not work. Some other videos from the same site do work correctly though. This phenomena has happened to me several times on several different sites. I have contacted a few sites to see if I could get some assistance. I was informed by the few who bothered to reply that they test their material against IE and Firefox run under Windows. One responder informed me that testing against non-windows architecture was not a viable option due to the extreme fragmentation of the non-windows community. Anyway, I was hoping that perhaps someone might have a working solution for this predicament. As to be expected, you're not likely to get much help from any particular site you're having problems with. Get used to it. :-) Which video driver are you using? And how do you normally install your software packages, via ports or packages? There was a mention in one of the lists about making sure to set the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU=yes option in /etc/make.conf before building and installing xorg. You may want to try that. I was having problems with flash here myself, took this advice and rebuilt my entire xorg installation. It's working much, much better now. Lockups and other annoying glitches have pretty much gone away altogether, and every site I visit works just fine now. The site you gave above works fine for me, by the way, under 9.0-BETA1 for amd64 with the linux flashplugin (wrapped, of course, with nspluginwrapper). Hope this helps. If you need any further assistance, let me know. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Carmel wrote: I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance Works here on 8.2-stable i386, Firefox 6. Remember to remove and install or update with nspluginwrapper after a new Flash version comes out. flashblock.mozdev.org might help, as it lets you only run the Flash instances you want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
